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The Abbeville Press and ;Ban#e|^ BY W. W. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE. 8. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1909: ESTABLISHED | Story and Sentiment. Extract troin Mr. Wilson's Booklet. (Continued). George McDnffie was a Georgia boy. He caine to Abbeville County when an orphan, a protege of the Calhouns. He was admitted to the bar at Abbeville, and was successively member of the Legislature, ~ ? Representative in Congrefes, Governor of the State, ana meniDer ui the United States Senate. He was admittedly the ablest member of the South Carolina Nullification Convention. Frank B. Gary went from Abbeville County to the United States Senate. To him Abbeville is indebted for an appropriation of $50,000 by Congress to build a United States postoffice in the town. Strictly tinder the rules, Abbeville was not legally entitled to a postoffice, but out of courtesy to the Senator^ who was popular with his colleagues, the appropriation was made. The Abbeville Bar furnished to tly& Bench Judge Langdon Cheves, Judge D. L. Wardlaw, Chancellor Francis Wardlaw, Judge Samuel McGowan, Judge A. C. Haskell, Judge Thomas Thomson, Judge J. S. Cothran, Judge E. B. Gary, Judge Ernest Gajy, Judge George E. Prince, Judge J. C. Klugh, Judge W. C. Benet. Abbeville gave to the service of the State J. Fraser Lyon, Attorney General, and A. W. Jones, Comptroller General; M. P. DeBruhl, Assistant Attorney Generate and Judge J. Fuller Lyon is chief clerk in the State Treasurer's office. , t Abbeville has furnished three Governors for the State?Patrick Noble, George MeDuffie and John Gary Evans. Abbeville County sent to Congress Armistead Burt, D. Wyatt Aiken, George MeDuffie, J. S. CothTan, A. C. Latimer, Wyatt Aiken. To Wyatt Aiken's popularity in the House is due the fact of its con currence in voting with the Senate for our postomce. to mm in Congress alflQ is due a strong effort to make Prohibition effective in Prohibition States, and it is his purpose to introduce in Congress a bill to bring about Prohibition in the District of Columbia. Langdon Cheves was in Congress from 1811 to 1816?was Speaker 1 one term. Was closely associated with William Lowndes, Henry i Clay and John C. Calhoun, and was the peer of either of them. He was lawyer, statesman, and man of affairs. Taking charge of the United States bank when in a deplorable condition and when insolvency seemed inevitable, he restored its credit. t Abbeville gave to Charleston Editor J. C. Hemphill, and to the Winnsboro News and Herald J. Frank Fooshe. Editor A. M. Carpenter, of the Anderson Mail, was in Abbeville for a time, and we are 1 inclined to claim him, too. Editors Charles H. Allen and Wm. H. Wilson were a gift to Florida from Abbeville. In North Carolina we contributed to the editorial fraternity John T. Darlington, who was ' once a printer in Due West in this county, but is now an editor in Kernersville, N. C. James H. Giles was editor in Newberry and Columbia ' ' > 1 We gave to Edgefield Editor W. P. Calhoun. To the State of Georgia we gave Editor Larry T. Gantt. We gave to the world Editor John Temple Graves Abbeville furnished to the Palmetto Kegiment the color-bearer who first raised the Palmetto flag on the walls of Mexico?F. W. Selleck?in 1847. i Abbeville county gave to the Capital of the State the talented and fearless W. H. McCaw, who had the manhood and the courage to print a Straightout Democratic daily paper during Radical rule. To Winthrop Abbeville gave an adopted son, D. B. Johnson, who was superintendent of our schools, that he might become President of that institution. Prof. J. W. Thomson, native of Abbeville, has been in the Winthrop College for years. To Clemson Abbeville gave Professor Mark E. Bradley and Pro- < fessor D. H. Henry. . x / Prof. Gub Miller, who was born amongst us, is now the popular ' superintendent of the schools in Americus, Georgia. The Edgefield Military Institute is indebted to Abbeville for its ? commandant, Capt. T. J. Lyon. 1 In Washington, D. (J., Abbeville nas james m. x>uker, o. aiwicus Johnston, W. 0. Bradley, J; J. Darlington, W. L. Kirby. To the New Orleans bar we gave Robert McCaw Perrin. ( Whenever the town of Anderson needs anything, 6he sends down here for it. For instance : They took from us John K. Hood to make a State Senator of him and also a Mayor of the town. Prof. J. F. Lee, the best man and the oldest man with the clearest brain, was ours for 80 jrears. "Anderson needed him and Abbeville let ( him go. R. E. Hill, Jr., is in Florida. To the Charleston bar we gave Jame.: L. Petigru, one of the ablest men the State ever produced. To the South Carolina College we gave President E. L. Patton, . President J. M. McBryde and Professor Patterson Wardlaw. To Wofford we gave Prof. John G. Clinkscalea. To Alabama Abbeville gave Alpheus Baker, scholar, educator, orator. To the industrial pursuits Abbeville furnished to Greenville Lewis W. Parker, and to Spartanburg we gave Aug. W. Smith. These captains of industry, as everybody knows, are at the head of the cotton mill business in South Carolina, and receive larger salaries than any other men in the State. Abbeville gave to the war every able-bodied man that she had, not i one of.whom faltered in the hours of danger. Seven of their number became regimental commanders, while one commanded'a brigade. Abbeville brought Stephen D. Lee from the cradle to twelve yearp, and then turned hipa over to Anderson. To the railroads Abbeville has furnished many important officers. For instance: Thomas C. Perrin was for many years, President of the Greenville and Columbia railroad, and John G. Edwards was treasurer of the] same road for years. Thos. P. Cothran, Attorney for the Southern system; J. W. Perrin, Wilmington, N. C., General Freight Agent Atlantic Coast Line!; D. W. Morrah, Atlanta, General Traveling fAgent Seaboard Air Line; J. F. Livingston, uoiumDia, S; C., C. N. & L. Soliciting Agent; C. D. Brown, Commercial Agent for the Southern Railway. J. T. Robertson is traveling for Southeastern Tariff Association. Wm. L. Templeton with New York telephone company. Lee County needed a good County Treasurer, and Abbeville sent Thos. C. Perrin. Wm. L. Hemphill and James C. Hemphill are with the Southern Power Company, surveying, near Winnsboro, and Robert G. Hemphill has a government position in Canon City, Colorado. Willie T. Mcllwain is conductor on a Florida road. Anderson needed printers, and we sent J. H. Oulla and Arthur Morrow, the best job printers on earth. J. M. Giles, traveling salesman. GeorgeShillito, Sr., and George Shillito, Jr., proprietors of a shop for manufacturing tin shingles and other tin goods. George C. Gambrell is with the Seaboard Air Line Railroad. Thomas W. Coogler is with the Express Company, Atlanta. G. Henry Moore, in Railroad employ, Macon, Ga. Thomas J. Syfan, telegraph operator on Southern Railway. And perhaps a thousand other men just as good, just as great, and just as deserving of mention. The writer has no axe to grind, no fish to fry, no enemy? to punish. However much he may have erred, he has striven to present facts as he sees them. No man's name haii been rraroosely omitted. The above named men are of the choicest and best that Abbeville has produced, but they are a loss to the business interests and the thrift of the town. While Abbeville has reason to be very proud of its many sons that it has sent out to enrich the world, yet it is not certain that their going is to the city's credit. If Abbeville had made greater and more united efforts, other manufacturing enterprises] would have been establ ished ami our men would have Ween a ble&sing: instead of a lost* to tlieir own town. Abt.eville still ha* plenty of men who are competent for any pursuit, and are able to conduct the most I important enterprises. They can, by united effoit, be kept at home. THE CEADLE OP SECESSION. \ ' ' Abbeville may truly be said to be the cradle of Secession. The first Secession Meeting in the States which afterward formed the Southern Confederacy was held in Abbeville, November 22, 1860. The Committee of Arrangements \^as as follows : J. J. Wardlaw, ' J. S. Cothran, T. C. Perrin, J. A. Calhoun, A. J. Lythgoe, A. Burt, 1 R. H. Wardlaw, J. H. Wilson, Wm. Hill, J. C. Calhoun, A. H. J McGowan, J. H. Cobb, J. T. Moore, W. H. Parker, D! F. Jones, R. A. * Fair. S. H. Jones. John Knox. R. J. White, H. W. Lawson. Speakers invited for the day : Robeert Toombs. James Chesnut, Tnmo* tt Tlammnnfl. M. L. Bonbam, A. G. Mcprath, W. F. Colcock, James Conners. ' . At the meeting on the 22nd of November, 1860, Thos. C. Perrin presided, assisted by D. L. Wardlaw, Col. John A. Calhoun, Dr. J. W. Hearst, John Brownlee, Dr. John H. Logan. . The marshals were: A. M. Smith. J. F. Livingston, Col. W. M. ^ Rogers. The meeting was held in the grove now called Secession Hill. The speakers were: Hon. A. G. Magrath, Judge D. L. Wardlaw, Tbomas Thomson. On Tuesday, August 22, 1876, Chamberlain and his crowd were routed. The speakers were : On the Republican side?Gov. D. H. Chamberlain, Congressman S. L. Hoge, State Superintendent of Education J. K. Jillson. On the Democratic side?Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, General S. Mc- 1 Gowan, Col. J. S. Cothran. DEMOCRATS DEMANDED DIVISION OF TIME. Capt. L. W. "White, Col. Eugene B. Gary, Capt. J. N. King, A. B. Wardlaw, B. W. Barnwell, R, M. Sanders, J. P. Phillips were ap- c pointed commissioners to bear the request for division of time to t Chamberlain, with further instruction, if refused, to demand the t right, and to inform him that we would insist upon a division of time, z with force, if nebessary. The request was granted. v $ n SECESSION HILL SACRED GROUND. 1 To a majority of the citizens of Abbeville County that grove r of white oaks, to the East of the railroad depot, must forever romain sacred ground. With no spot of earth within all the borders of the whole Southern Confederacy are associated as many events affecting ^ the history of the conntry. <3 It was at the foot of this hill in 1760 that the hostile Indians, 0 '3 3 ?* - "" ??<* "in.an fn rJoat.h Win are amiu a war utinuc, puiro swu. v*w?vu wv v. ~? r found in the Shillitos. It was on this spot that Fort Pickens was built near the spring on the little branch below the railroad trestle, to protect our people from attacks by the Indians. ' | It was on the crown of this hill that a magazine for the storage of war materials was built in the dim past. It was on this spot that the Revolution was inaugurated in 1860. ^ It was within a few hundred yards of the home where lived the ^ author of/the Ordinance of Secession. It was within a stone's throw of this hill where lived the firqj; Confederate soldier who lost his life in the war. " ^ I . ! ( It was here the last Confederate soldier lay down to die. ^ Between these houses and Secession Hill lived'Charles Henry Allen's family. His son, James Clark Allen, was the first man to lose his life in the war. Hurriedly passing from one room to another in their barracks in the Moultrie House on Sullivan's Island, February r 13, 1861, he ran against the point of a comrade's bayonet, which entered his eye and pierced his brain. > It was in full view of the splendid oaks which adorn and beautify n that ground that the President of the Southern Confederacy held the last council of war. It was here that the failure of the Confederate arms was formally ^ acknowledged. It was here that the Confederate government collapsed, and the 8 remaining officers and men were released from military duty. j It was on this spot of ground that the aliens acknowledged their , defeat, quit the campaign, took refuge in the State capita) at Colum bia, and sought personal protection at the hands of Federal bayonets ^ against the just indignation of an outraged people, whose rights they had usurped, and whose property, under the forms of law, was being confiscated. DISSOLVING VIEWS. n * a Mr. Davis, the President of the Southern Confederacy in his re- s treat across the country arrived in Abbeville about the 1st day of fl May, 1865, at 10 a. m. He had with him five of his Cabinet officers, Gen. Breckenridge, Mr. Benjamin, Mr. Mallory, Mr." Reagan, and General Lawton. Council of war was held in the house of Mr. Burt. At this meeting Mr. Davis, who had with him two bridages cf cavalry commanded by Generals Vaughaa and Dukes urged that a v 3tand should be made at this point, that a reorganization of the army P might by attempted, and the Confederacy not entirely Abandoned, at least until such terms might be secured from the United States Gov- 1( ^ i a O ernment as would, protect tne nie ?nu prupei t_y ui mo ouypui igiiO vi | the Southern Confederacy. He was, however, overruled by the council. ^ This incident is related of the meeting: Mr. Davis, after stating ^ his views, asked General Dukes if his troops could be relied on to make a stand at or near Abbeville. General Dukes replied that he feared c' not. The same question was asked of Generals Yaughan and Bragg, c and the same reply was received from each. Mr. Davis then rested a his head against the back of his chair, and covered his face with his unfolded handkerchief. Mr. Burt arose, took Mr. Davis by the arm, and conducted him to his chamber. About twelve o'clock of the same night the Presidential party resumed their retreat. Reaching the house of Rev. J. O. Lindsay, D. D., near Mt. Carmel, Mr. Davi*, ? found Mrs. Davis who had preceded him that far and who was wait- g ing for him. Mr. and Mrs. Davis drank a cup of coffee with Mr. and T Mrs. Lindsay, before taking their departure, and so Mr. Davis took fi his last meal in Abbeville County with Dr. Lindsay, just before he t crossed the river into Georgia. r HEREDITY STRONGER THAN ENVIRONMENT. S A few miles away from where the city of Abbeville now stands, a ? whole family, with a single exception, was pnt to death by the Indians. The exception was a member of the Hodges family, a pretty , girl who was saved from death on the condition that she would become the wife of one of the Indians. She was carried away. She returned afterward, bringing with her a little Indian son. Her Indian husband loved her dearly, and he opposed her coming back, but he finally consented. He accompanied her, on her return, to Savannah river, as near as it was safe for him to come at that time. He feared that she would never return to him, but she promised that she would. She fully in- c tended to keep her promise, but kindred objected, and she remained T ?natray onainw Viar VinaVio nri a rrfllTl Thft son errew to man WillU lUClii, UCTCi OOVAUg UVk MMWWMUV* wgv... ___ o hood, and then disappeared, going back to his father, thus proving that heredity, in this case at least, was stronger than environment. Proof * of the influence of heredity and environment is nowhere more plainly to be seen than in the contemplation of the descendants of the differ- 8 ent settlers as preserved to this day. THE CEDAR'S VIGIL. Within the shadows of the great oaks that have so often sheltered * shouting multitudes rests the body of a Confederate soldier \Wbose name and whose nativity are unknown. He was among the last to lay down his life for Southern rights. Among the returning soldiers he ? came this far and died of small-pox. His body rests to day in the very spot where the Secession movement was organized. By a singular ^ coincidence it was the home of the first soldier to die in the war, even as it is now the resting place of the last soldier to give up his life for 1 finnt.Viara Ritylifd The facts as to that soldier's life, as to who he was, as to where his home was, as to who were his loved ones, will forever remain a mystery. The cedar which was planted at his grave by the loving hands of a patriotic little girl, stands and keeps watch over him. 1 i * V ' ' _ , But no stone with graven name or blazoned inscription tells the story Whether he left at home mother, sisters, sweetheart, wife or littl children matters little now. While living men may pay the tribut of a sigh, the purling All and tne brook that is never weary join ii tbeir unceasing requiem for the soul of the dead warrior. The young woman who planted the cedar over the soldier's grav< eras Miss Fannie Marshall, whose beauty of person was only equaled by her beauty of character. She in young womanhood married H. G Pinckney of Charleston. She now sleeps beneath magnolias in th< ZJity by the Sea, where " Death lies on her like an untimely fro&t Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." ^ With all these historic facts connected with Secession Hill, it it 10 wonder that our people remember the place with special interest, lor is it strange if the remembrance of these notable and exciting icenes should fill the mind with the most profound thoughts, or excite n the patriotic breast the deepest emotions that can warm and aninate the human heart. INVITATION TO IMMIGRANTS. \ \ The Best Farms, the Best Crops, the Best Peeple on Earth Are in Abbeville CeuDty. Since the coming of the railroad shops and the building of the :otton mill every thing in Abbeville has grown at a pace heretofore * v_ nianu nt frVin tnwn Viav? increased from six l^LKHOWIl. J. 110 UUBU1CH JIWVW v< n.? efen to sixty. The town and the houses, have greatly increased in lumber and in value. A large part of the *business of the town is Lone with money that ie paid out by the railroad and the cotton mill. [*he increased business has brought" many people to town. Since the :otton mill has been in operation all the farm products have bad a narket and a good demand at greatly increased prices. All these facts go to show that the interests of the country and the aterests of the town are one and the same; they prove that where be one prospers the other must reap a corresponding benefit. The [istribution by the Shops and Cotton Mill of $200,000 annually ampng ur people quickens every artery of trade and every line of business. ' ABBEVILLE A HEALTH HESORT. Our lands are well drained, the soil is most produotive, while the inrest and the best of the life-giving or health-restoring water flows rom every spring at the foot of nearly every hilL The climate is healthful, and if we had a little more enterprise he county and the city of Abbeville would be known to the world as he most healthy place on earth. A place where the sick and the aflicted might come from distant parts with the reasonable hope or pith the certainty of recovering lost health. ' Florida's richest and best income is from the sick people who go here solely to escape the cold weather of the more Northern climate. ?hey must flee from Florida at the approach of warm weather, but in Abbeville we have good weather all the year. Between Abbeville county and the State of Florida as a health esort there can be no comparison. By nature Abbeville is in every way the superior of 'Florida. In the State of Florida there is no spring that in any way comes ? ? "nmnaridmi with the mineral spring at Little Mountain, COL fV/ ? ?? ? _ _ /hile any spring in the county furnishes better and purer water ban can be found in the State of Florida 7 The Diamond Spring, near Lowndesville, was a noted resort be3re the war. Its water is inferior to none that flows out of the round. In Abbeville County we have no swamps ; we have no nndrained mds ; we have no malaria ; we have no stagnant water ; we have no Luggish streams. The water of our rivers is as pure and as sparkling s when it left the Blue Ridge. It rushes by us with increasing energy, ounding over granite ledges and running down through the winding raterways as it goes to the sea. Our winters are so mild that we have ice and frost only a few ights during the cold season. Spring comes with the April showers nd hastens to beautify all Nature, making fragrant the very lifeustaining air which givee health and happiness to all, while hearing weet incense up to heaven. IMMIGRANTS PROSPEROUS." The good men who have come from qther counties to make Abbeille their home within the last few years are without exception proserous and happy. ' ' Thousands of acres of the best low-priced lands are still lying lie and waiting for the coming of other good men to possess and to ccupythem.Abbeville has awakened from her slumber of a century, and she as grown more in the last fifteen years than she grew for a hundred ears before. ' Instead of bringing a tenth of the price of inferior lands in other ounties. as they did immediately after the war, our lands have so inreased in price that they now command at least one-fourth of the verage price of inferior lands in Anderson county, for instance. / * THE CROP ON ONE ACRE WILL BUY THREE ACRES. ? \ When a farmer can make a bale of cotton to the acre on land that osts him $10 or $20, how is it possible for the industrious and intellient farmer to fail to get rich ? A bale of cotton is worth $60 or $70. - * * * Tha 'he seed from the same Dale may De worm uum iU j.uv rom the single bale being sufficient to pay for the acre on which the 60 or $70 bale of lint cotton was grown. When our neglected lands are cultivated, Abbeville county will ank, as it did before the war, as the best agricultural county in the outh. And all that is needed to make Abbeville county, as it was efore the war, the richest in the State, is more good farmers to make he soil productive. And more good farmers will be sure to come ?hen they learn of the rich estate* that are now lying idle and which hey may buy for a song. These lands can be had on credit or for cash. The purchase price iav be taken from the soil in a very short time, if not by a single crop. # ? THE VARIETY ^ND EXCELLENCE OP OUR CROPS. Abbeville county before the war sold corn, and when the first cars ame to the county we kept the trains busy hauling off corn and rheat. Sorghum cane grows to perfection in Abbeville county. Two crops of the best Irish potatoes may be grown every year on he same land. , Sweet potatoes are a favorite crop on every farm, and in every ;arden. Turnips grow in the greatest profusion, feeding man and beast Oats is one of our standard crops. Tons and tonB of peavine hay feed our stock while the roots of he leguminous plant enriches the soil from which it grows. Abbeville county lands are especially adapted to the clovers. Burr clover grows most luxuriantly, without cost of preparation f the land. If the seed is scattered over the land it will come for an ndefinite time. It blooms in April, seeds in May, and by the first of une is dead. It comes again in October. As a pasture, nothing is letter or more profitable for several months in the winter. As an orlament it is the eqnal of anything that grows out of the ground. 1 1 "-1 A VvkAfrilla rtnnnfv V etcII IB at IlULLie 111 ^iL/uormo wuuvj. COTTON 18 KING. While all the sub-tropical products grow to perfection in Abbeille county, Cotton is King of all the crops and ruler of all the world. / U- .it vA '*,/? * V. \ ^ . ' ' ' V While there are degrees of success in producing the crop e that clothes mankind, yet there are no failures. Nobody erdr planted 0 cotton in April who failed in October to gather mort or less df "the 1 fleecy staple. / -- v$?l Cotton is pre-eminently the poor man's dependence and the rioh 3 man'* reliance. * No, matter whether the ground is plowed or half cultivated, a . -J crop of more or less value is sure to be gathered. 3 The poorest ox makes as good a sample of the staple a&.&m be made by the proudest horse or the strongest mule. The only difference is in the quantity of the crop. ' ... SiM It waits on the lazy man.. It grows for the least intelligent j ture, and it produces the staple for no culture at all, while intefflgent '''A cultivation makes the industrious farmer rich. ' * ' Corn may jfail, Wheat may fail, oats may fail, or any other of the \ , \ \- J3 j man j crops may fail in other conn ties, but cotton never fails in Abbe- , . Jj ville county. Cotton ia less bulky than any other crop. In bales, from f 125 to ; , 200 worth can be hauled on a two-horse wagon. There is notr a day ; 33 in the year when it cannot be sold ior its value, A ready- buyer can be found <any hour in the smallest town. BENEFIT OF COTTON MILL*. / ,'V If we had at the city of Abbeville a sufficient number of millsto weave all of the cotton, the value of the crop would be greatly in- \ | creased, and the distribution of the cost of manufacture be of benefit . ^1 to all. ' the presence of the mills would be of as much bene&t to the county as they would be to the city., Immense sums of foreign capital would be brought tb pay for the . / , labor, and thus contribute to our prosperity. New men would come, and new enterprises would spring up. > " i ANY TOWN CAN BtJILD COTTON MILLS. ' * ' " , A town like Abbeville can build as many mills m may be wairted. -vy Subscribe for one, and when It is built, sell the stock and re-invest the money in another, and so on.' A town that can build- one mill can build as many as-jtwants. Our people are not ricli enough to hold their stock, but' every, man ii able to take shares in a pew milL The incidental advantages will pay, Reference is had to the im- . mense advantage of the presence of a single milL COTTON MILLS INCREASE THE PRICE OF FARMING LANDS. > \ There is perhaps not a foot of land in theiifeorporate limits of Abbeville that has not been doubled since the bnilding of the . if there is a farm in the county that can be bought at ism.-than double." ' ^ its former price the fact is upt known. \ 'A If Abbeville should build another mill, it is fair to presTUBethat we will have another ten years of prosperity. And by the eajfoSfae of" ; -m a little wisdom and a little common Wse we can have aa many. mills. ^ '% as we want without costing us a -dollar. The incidental advantages. that will accrue/to us will repay many times oyer any possible loss Qf ^ interest. LandiT are now thought to be high, bnt if we had more good mcR < in the county they would go higher and higher as the nMQ'?nd tb?; mills may come. The owners of farming lands will be benefitted by the coming of other men and other mills, even as they have* been benefitted by the coming of one mill and other men. ^ ABBEVILLE'S GREATEST WEALTH. | Abbeville's productive soil and the variety of her crops are not her greatest wealth. Statistics will bear out the assertion that Abbeville has more labor and better labor and cheaper labor than any eftie? $ 1 county in the United States. jt;> The poorest family may hire one or more cooks, nurses, labor?*, field hands and other willing workers to do any and every tiling. If a ditch is to be opened, if a field is to be oleared orplowed, if cotton is to be planted, hoed or picked, if any other crop riefeds attention, if a house is to be built, or if work of any kind is/Jp be done, there are always applicants for work in such numbers as to embarrass the man who would be glad to give a job to alL Unlike other towns and other counties, Abbeville has no vagrants. A vagrant in Abbeville is unknown and unheard of. All of our people want to work, and rather than be idle they will *work for a small wage. The idle lands and the productiveness of the soil need only the { .? ? j__ i.?> it.. ..1 A ability and the tact to apply tne Dear WDor to oring uie nuuost mm. the most certain results. 1 . / ' . - . j '^$5 THE WORLD'S IGNORANCE. r ^ 1 The world knows little or nothing of the productive soil of Abbe- / ville county! It is ignorant of Abbeville's glorious climate, which is free from storm and pestilence. We have kept secret frow aH this, f | world facts about our salubrious air, and we have not made known the purity of the beverage "prepared by God himself to nourish and invigorate his creatures and to beautify his footstool." If the world should charge us with selfishness in -keeping secret these facts of the place nearest the fountain of health, this eldorado which abounds not only with the best crops that ever grew bent, ft a southern sun or was sheltered by a northern sky/we should plead not guilty; but if chflfrged with a failure to make proper effort to inform the .world of the priceless blessings which we enjoy and which we art willing to share, we should plead guilty. ' - " . 'MS ; HUGH WILSON. ' Abbeville, S. C., December, ,1909. '/ "Ji Amount Paid by Abbeville Methodist Church j , for the Year 1909. Amount paid Rev. Henry Stokes (Pastor) $1,850 00 Rev. J. C. Roper (Presiding Elder) ' 175 50 Bishops - ' 26 80 ? ivy KK Conference Claims . f 91 W Foreign Missions 141 95 Domestic Missions 128 05 Church Extension ; x ' 66 25 Education " 16 25 Wofford College ? 110 40 Publishing Minutes ??.?? 9 05 Delegate to General Conference 9 05 \ Support of Orphan by Sunday School 60 00 Extra Contributions to Epworth Orphanage..... 50 00 Laeies Missionary Society to Missions 225 00 Young Peoples Society ? ' ' v 16 48 ' - " * i ; m?\Ji 55 00 j Sunday scnooi ljueramrw Organist ..."...? 800 00 Church Music 15 00 Contingent Expenses rr-'T-1 225 00 Premium on Insurance, Church and Parsonage .|u.,58 88 Laymen's Movement 50 00 Ladies Working Society 880 80 Contributed for Special Services 125 00 Repairing Church and Parsonage : 1 <877 00 Tnt:al : $4,008 01 Total on Roll 370 Moved away or otherwise inacsive 20 Total Members 355 Average attendance on divine worship Contr8bution of attendants per capita $ 31 06 / -. I*-,: